While the Sun is the centre of our solar system, it only makes up about 99.8 per cent of the mass of the entire solar system.

When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...

A simple animation created by planetary ... Earth orbits the sun at 66,600 mph, and the sun orbits the Milky Way at 514,500 mph, our solar system's speed relative to the CMB is about 827,000 ...